Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 13 November 1891 — Page 6

g'- 11 11 1 . A 1 ' 11 1 ■ L'_ ■ 1 1 -■*' ■ 1 ■.. 1 ©he democrat XJICCA.TUR, IND. IfcBLAGKBUBN, ... Poblwher. PLEASURE AND PROFIT WILL BE FOUND IN READING OUR NEWS SUMMARY. Two Firemen Killed at Cincinnati—A Pennsylvania Tragedy—The Situation in East Tennessee Growing Serious. FOLK LIVES EOST. A Holocaust in a Denver Livery Barn. A terrible fire in which four men and thirty,- four horses were suffocated * occurred in the Mansions stables, at Denver, Col. The scenes about the fire were horrible as the smoked poured through into the apartments where the horses were kept. Scenting danger, their cries of alarm and fright were pitiful,'* and in their efforts to escape they climbed into their mangers, kicked down thepr stalls and some managed to break away, but fell dead in the gangway. George Richards was the only one of the four unfortunates who lost their lives, that w&s buried externally. His face was horribly burned and blackened and his hair was singed from his head. David Elmore managed to get out into the hall be fore he was overcome by the heat and smoke and as the firemen were peering through the smoke and heat searching for any spark of fire that had escaped their notice, one of them stumbled over the body, which was the first notification the firemen had that all had not escaped from the building before the flames gained headway. .Penetrating further into the building the firemen found the bodies of Bowen, Richards, and Helbin piled one upon the other upon the floor of their room. Fire Fighters Killed. Two firemen were killed and four badly injured at Cincinnati by the fall of a ladder. The picture frame establishment of Oscar Onken, 134 West Second street, caught fire in the cellar and in a very few minutes was enveloped in flames. An employe named Meyers was In the cellar at the time and his escape was cut off, but he was finally rescued by firemen who carried him to a place of safety. He was badly burned about the head and upper part of the body. The two firemen who were killed were William Bocklage and Ed Anderson, of the Seventh company. The injured are: Captain Hurley, of Twos; Firemen Beebe, John Conwav and Jerry Daugherty, all of the same company. It is - thought, all the injured will recover. The loss is about §30,000; inspired, $15,f' 000. A Pennsylvania Tragedy. The usually quiet village of Green, Pike County, Pa., is greatly excited over a tragedy enacted at the home of George David, an aged farmer. Simon P. Field, employed on an adjoining Tarin, entered the premises of David, called the latter to the door and blew the top of his head off witn a load of buckshot Field then turned on David’s wife, like a savage beast, shooting her in the fa«e and beating her about the head with his gun. The assassin then rushed down the farm lane, where he met a son of David’s, and shot him in the back. David is dead and H it is believed the mother and son cannot live. Field was arrested, taken to Milford and locked up. He claims to t have do recollection of his crime. Twenty-Five Velars. The jury in the Seibert-Klechner murder case at Aurora, 111., has rendered a verdict of guilty and recommended that each prisoner be sentenced to twenty-five years in the penitentiary. A motion for a new trial was made by the defense. Wm. Seibert, the Aurora saloon keeper, and Mrs. Kate Klechner, thus stand convicted of having poisoned the latter’s husband. The Conviction was purely on circumstantial evidence. Eleven jurymen were in favor of hanging on the first ballot. Seventy-Seven Criminals Drowned. A cyclone passed over the Adaman Islands, situated in the Bay of Bengal. The islands form a British convict settlement, to which East Indian criminals are transported, and the steamer Enterprise, belonging to the Indian Governand used to convey prisoners to the islands and for other purposes, was at one of the ports when the cyclone set in. The vessel, and seventy-seven criminals, .wentto the bottom. Growing Serious. The situation of affairs in Tennessee is becoming somewhat alarming. Suspicious comniunication| are being held between the East Tennessee miners and the miners of Kentucky, Alabama and Virginia. The hardy mountaineers who released the convicts have sworn that the Governor shall not rebuild the stockades, and that if he sends the convicts back to the mines they will be butchered in cold blood. Rolling Mills to Close. Unless there is some relief it is probable that both rolling mills of Terre Haute, Ind., which employ a large number of men, will have to shut down for want of coal. A local estimate of the daily loss by the present strike in the Indiana coal fields is $22,000, divided In about these proportions: $14,000 to the miners, SO,OOO to the railways, and $2 ,000 to the operators. The Government Wins. The Court of Claims has rendered a decision against the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois in the suit to recover the 2 per cent, fund retained by the National Government from the sale of the Cumberland Gap road. The sum in dispute is $1,500,000. No Revolution Probable. The revived hopes of the partisans of Dom Pedro have Deen dampened by news from Brazil to the effect that there is nc prospect of a revolution against the DaFonseca Government. The latest flews from Rio Janeiro shows that everything there is tranquil. A Heavy Sentence. At Port Huron, Mieh., Theodore Kuhn, the murderer of Wesley McDonnell, was sentenced to twenty-two years to bard labor at Jackson. War Preparations. Valparaiso special: There fib no diminution of the popular animosity against Americans, and no real effort Is being made to bring any Chilians to justice for the killing of American sailors. While the American negotiations are pending the Junta has ordered the Chilian war vessels to be ready for service, and the forts defending Valparaiso harbor are being strengthened. These steps are taken very quietly, as if with a view to avoid attracting attention. The Baltimore maintains great diligence, and Captain Schley is evidently on the lookout for a treacherous attack. The opinion la expressed that should the situation

I L " 11 ' l, ‘* ■ culminate before the 18th met. the new President, probably George Monnt, may bring matters to a settlement. He is believed to be the best disposed to Americans of any of the revolutionary leaders. HERE IS A CORKER. Fart of Indiana to Go to Ohio, and Indiana Will Got Chicago and she World’s Fair. Indianapolis special: Interest in the question of a new boundary line between Indiana and Ohio has been revived by the statement made by Senator Shockney, of .Union City, that the survey party sentout by the National Government has been at work for the past two months locating the boundary line between the two States. The work has been under the direction of Prof. Mendenhall, and has been personally conducted by Col. Sinclair. The work has been completed within the past few days and the survey party is now preparing its report, which will be ready to submit to the Government in about three weeks. Senator Shockney claims that the facts found by the surveyors are as heretofore alleged—that the true line as declared when Ohio was organized into a State commences twelve miles west of the present boundary line at the north and runs directly south to the present line between Ohio and Indiana, thus making a strip 200 miles long and of an average width of six miles—l,2oo square miles, to which the State of Ohio lays claim. The strip described includes the cities of Fort Wayne, Richmond, and Union City, and a population altogether of about 200,000. The agitation of this question commenced about a year ago through a resolution adopted by the Ohio Legislature reciting the facts as stated, and asking the National Government to correct the line. The detail of that survey party to locate the line, was ordered by the Government, in compliance with this resolution. An inquiry into the causes that led to the juggling of these boundary lines discloses that at the time Ohio was made a State there were post-traders located at Richmond and Fort. Wayne, whose trade with the Indians was very profitable. If the line had been run correctly these posts would have been taken into the new State of Ohio, and the occupation of these traders would have been gone. The post-traders, ’tis said, bribed the survey party which located tne line and Richmond and Fort Wayne were left on the Indiana side. The question is a very important and complicated, one; for should Ohio’s claim on Indiana be enforced, Indiana, on the same grounds, would have cause of action against Illinois. If Indiana loses on the east it would, by the same ruling, be entitled to a slice of Illinois, and this would give the Hoosiers Chicago and the World’s Fair. f ANACONDA MINE DISASTER. Twelve Men Drop Twelve Hundred Feet Down the Shaft, Butte (Mont.) special: Early Thursday when the streets were crowed with people interested in election returns from the East, a messenger came hurrying into town for physicians, saying that one of the cages in the big Anaconda mine had dropped to the bottom of the twelve hundred feet shaft, killing twelve men and fatally injuring eight others. Assistance was sent at once. The men usually come to the surface at 12 o’clock for supper and one load of eighteen men was being raised when the cage became caught in the guards arid the cable broke. The cage fell to the bottom. The work of taking out the dead and wounded began at once. It was found that twelve were dead and the remainder fatally wounded. A mass of bleeding flesh and bones was all that was found at the bottom of the shaft But one man could be identified. He evidently struck on his feet, as his legs were driven in his body nearly to his chest ’ All the others were so mangled that it was impossible to move them except in sacks and baskets. The miners who worked side by side with their comrades a few minutes before say that the names of the dead men as far as they know are: James McDonald,Pat Mulligan, Jim Roach, Jim O’Connell, John Doherty, Sullivan, Evans. It will be impossible to learn the names of the others until after a roll call of the workmen. It is now said that the cable on the cage did not break, but that a projecting timber struck one of the men and as he fell he dragged the others off the cage. NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH. Buildings Collapse at Akron, Ohio, and but Two Persons Injured. A special from Akron, Ohio, says: Two brick and stone blocks on South Howard street, Akron’s principal business street, collapsed while thirty people were inside. Without warning the roofs and front walls of the structures fell in with a crash, burying most of those inside in the debris. One of the blocks was occupied by B. C. Herrick & Son, wholesale and retail china dealers, and the other by S. B. Lafferty as a bakery and candy factory. Mrs. David Frank, of Copley, and daughter Zedalla, were leaving the china store when the collapse came. Although pinned down by heavy stones and bricks they escaped with slight injuries. A horse hitched three feet away was instantly killed. Miss Frances Mi- . nor. of Johnston’s Corners, happened to be in the bakery. Her right leg was so badly crushed that amputation was necessary. Frank Zimmerman was working on the third floor. He came down with the building, and in a half stunned condition found himself buried under bricks, stones, and timbers. One leg was badly crushed. All others in the two buildings escaped at the rear, where the walls remained intact. Had they fallen, too, a fearful loss of life would have been the result. Loss on buildings is placed at $28,000; on B. C. Herrick’s stock, $48,000; on S. B. Lafferty’s, $5,000. A Missouri Pacific Train Robbed. Omaha special: A train on the Missouri Pacific railroad was held up by six masked men, one mile west of West Side, eight miles from this city. At*that point the train had to stop before crossing the F. E. &M. V. tracks. Two of the men boarded the engine, and with cocked revolvers, commanded Engineer Hall to get off the train. The men then boarded the express car, and upon being refused the keys to the box, proceeded to break it open with tools which they had secured from a section house. While two of the men worked on the strong box, the others compelled the passengers to keep their seats. The thieves secured •bout $3,500 from the safe and then backing off ordered the train to pull out. They then disappeared in the darkness. The sheriff and police officers are out after them. Pope Leo bailing. Rome special: At an audience given by Pope Leo to the Bishop of Limerick, the Pontiff asked many questions as to the situation in Ireland, and appeared affected by the death of Parnell. The Pope is said to be losing strength. He Shows symptons of partial paralysis, and in October he caused his temporal and spiritual wills to be prepared. He disclaims any personal feeling as to the choice of a successor, and bv his temporal will bis property is Intrusted to iqur Cardinals for certain specific purposes. His property consists chiefly of a deposit to the Bank of England and in

I I freehold and leasehold Investments made in Great Britain as a precaution in the event of having to leave Borne. . i ' .* A Woman’s Revang*. A special from Memphis says: Pony Saunders, a well-known saloon keeper and politician, died at St. Joseph’s Hospital of injuries inflicted by his wife. Mrs. Saunders, suspecting her husband’s infidelity, went to Pearl Willis’ house and found him in the woman’s room. She gave her a terrible beating and returned home. When her husband came home Mrs. Saunders heated a kettle of water. Mr. Saunders went to sleep and was awakened by his wife pouring the boiling water on the lower part of his body. He was horribly scalded and taken to the hospital. He became delirious and lumped from the second story of the building, breaking both legs. His injuries resulted fatally. Badly '.Wrecked. The second section of No. 66, an eastbound freight on the Fort Wayne road, stopped at the curve in Massillon, Ohio, to take water and was run into by a third section and caused one of the most disastrous wrecks ever witnessed on the road in that vicinity. Next to the caboose of the second section was a car of mules, twenty-five in number. Only four were taken out alive. The engine, caboose and eight loaded freight cars were thrown down the embankment. A man in charge of stock had his leg broken. The engineer and fireman of the third section saved themselves by jumping. The property damaged will run into the thousands. Met an Awful Death.’ Two Italian track laborers on the Pan Handle Railroad were run over and instantly killed at Mansfield Station, Pa. The men were jumping onto a flat car just as the train started from the Main street crossing. One named Cavialli fell off head first. One of his countrymen seized his feet, but the unfortunate man’s head struck the rail and a wheel passed over his neck, serving the head from the body. The Italian who held Cavialli's feet was also jerked from the car and five trucks passed over his body, cutting it in half. The horrible sight was witnessed by a hundred people. Shot By a Burglar. For several weeks a gang of desperadoes have been making property and even human life unsafe in Warren and Mercer counties, 111. Frank Harmon, of Alpha, is the last victim. While closing his store a masked man ordered him to throw up his hands. Instead he grappled with his assailant Harmon was shot in the face, the ball striking near the eye and glancing along the skull. His injuries are serious. He thinks he recognized the would-be assassin as a resident of the neighborhood, who has since disappeared. Dwelling Ruined by an Explosion. The dwelling of Charles Warren, at Bradford, Pa., was completely demolished by a natural gas explosion. Mr. Warren was hunting a leak in the cellar. The cellar was dark and he carried a lantern. A terrific explosion of gas followed, burying Mr. Warren. Ross Fenton, Mrs. Warren and her two daughters iu the ruins. None are fatally injured. The Anti-Lotteryltes. C. Harrison Parker, F. C. Zacharie, Charles Parlange, and George D. Johnston, constituting a special committee of "The Democratic Anti-Lottery Committee of Louisiana,” have issued anappeal to the people of the United States for aid in the struggle with tne Louisiana Lottery Company. Youthful Safe Robbers Captured. Chester Monks and Frank Cornelius, two boys about fifteen years old, entered the residence of Isaac M. Baker at Daleville, a small place west of Muncie, Ind., during the absence of the family and burglarized his safe of a $l,lOO check, a slls note and $96 in money. Both boys were arrested- and Monks confessed, A Barber-Shop Suicide. J. C. Amos, employed by the New York Installment Gdbipany, stepped into a Fort Wayne barber-shop and removed his coat with the apparent intention of getting shaved. He picked up a razor and cut his throat, severing the jugular vein. He formerly lived in Wabash, and was recently divorced from his wife. The Pope Very 111. Rome special: It is announced that the Pope is suffering from cerebral anaemia, due to old age. His condition causes grave apprehension. His Holiness recently remarked to Cardinal Langenieux, Archbishop of Rheims, that he thought the end of his life was near. Tunnel Explosion. An explosion in the Burke tunnel near Leadville, Col., resulted in the instant death of Bob Wilkinson and Gus Johnston. Seven others were seriously injured and it is expected two of them will die. Horsewhipped by a Pretty Girl. Miss Mollie Miller, a pretty 16-year-old girl, administered a horsewhipping to John Marsh, a clerk in a restaurant at Martinsville, Ind. The girl charges Marsh with insulting her. Troops Ordered Out. > Special telegrams say that the miners’ strike at Brazil, Ind., has become so serious that the troops have been ordered out. L THE MARKETS. CHICAGO, Cattle—Common to Prime..... $3.50 ® 850 Hogs—Shipping Grades . 8.50 @ 4.50 Sheep—Fair to Choice 8.00 @ 5.35 Wheat—No. BRed... 94i6@ 9514 BYE—No. 2 a .90 Butter - Choice Creamery2B m 29 cheese—Full Cream, flats .11 @ aiu Potatoes—New, per bu2s @ 35 „ INDIA NAPOLI 8. I” St" Cobh-No. 1 White ■. .68U® '.54% Oats-No. 2 White so @ .31 ST. LOUIS. ® , Hogs. g Wheat—No. 2Red. 99 3 93 Cobh—No. 2..... 47u Oais-No. 2. 28 3 ‘bo Rte—No. A. 86 @ *BB CINCINNATI.' ‘ ‘ 8HEKP,........................ B.OJ A 4 Wheat—No. 2 Red .94 95 Cobh—No. 2. ‘2 3 51 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 81)4@ *32)4 „ DETROIT. >•«> ® 800 SHBWee*** e ae«*pe eee ee eee eeeee* e*. B*oo OTi 4QM Wheat—No. 2 Bed. .97)4(0 .98)4 Cobh-No, 2 Yellow uq Oats-No. 2 White 33 @ 84 m „ TOLEDO. 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AFTER THE BATTLE* BOIES. M’KINLEY, FLOWER. AND RUSSELL WIN. Campbell Defeated by 20,000 — lowa's Enormous Vote—Kansas, Colorado, and Pennsylvania Go Strongly Republican— Working of the Australian Ballot la Ohio andminois, . Here Are the Results. From returns which appear enough complete to warrant correct judgment, - McKinley Is elected \ in Ohio by a plural- £ I ity conceded byDems'*—ocrats to reach 80,f 000. The Legislatore also appears to g be Republican. The — LdE People’s party cast about 12,000 votes. X nKf \p''»Hamilton County, to which Cincinnati is » located, gave MoBoswxLi, p. rLowEß.Kinley about 5,000 the successful Newmajority, Cleveland York candidate. gave Campbell 300 majority, while Toledo went for McKinley. The vote was not heavy, and the Australian ballot was a success The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette says editorially: “Returns on the Legislature show that it is Republican, and a » careful canvass of the ■ \ Senatorial preferen- 38 ces of the members «4| elected indicates that if Governor Foraker J\ really has Senatorial aspirations, his electlon is assured beyond / J the shadow of a doubt. \ A number of the leg- I V * islators are already ‘ outspoken in their 1 ’ the defeated New choice — notably the Y ork candidate, three representatives from Lucas County, who state positively that they are for Foraker first, last, and all the time. It goes without the saying that the Hamilton County delegation ought to be for the governor from motives of local pride, to say nothing of individual preference. By this the members of the Hamilton County delegation will in no wise disparage the distinguished services of Senator Sherman, but will express the almost unanimous choice of the Hamilton County republicans. " In New York f lower’s plurality for Governor is placed at 40,512. This is 80,000 less than Tammany’s big chief, “Dick* Croker, predicted and a trifle over 58,500 more thah the Republican leader, Husted, figured upon. The election of Flower and the whole Democratic State ticket, a possible majority in the State Legislature, besides the election of the entire city tickets in New York and Brooklyn, are among the fruits of the victory claimed by the Democrats. The State Senate is a tie—l 6 to 16. The returns for the Assembly are not full enough to compute its actual complexion, but reports received at the Democratic headquarters indicate the electiofr of a working majority in that body and consequently In joint assembly. In lowa the vote was very heavy. Although claims are made that Wheeler’s defeat is not assured, there seems little cause to doubt that Boies is chosen by 5,000 to 8,0» 0 The total vote reached nearly 420,000, which shows the intense interest taken. Conservative Republicans admit their leader’s defeat The entire Democratic State ticket is elected. The Legislature is Republican in both branches—the Senate by two,

■ !■. h. c. wheeler, Defeated lowa Candidate.

and the House by from two to four ma* jority. * In Massachusetts Russell (Dem.), it is estimated, has received 156,000 and Allen (Rep.) 151,000 votes, leaving the Governor a plurality of about 5,000. The vote of Boston is 36,513 for Russell and 23,987 for Allen, which gives the Democrats a plurality in the city of 13,525. The towns outside of the cities last year gave Brackett (Rep.) 59,313 and Russell (Dem.) 52,889. Returns from 282 towns this year give Russell 49,871 and Allen 59,384. Gov. Russell gained 13 per cent, in these towns, which, Applied to the rest of the towns, would make his total in all towns 59,199. Add to these figures' the vote of Boston, and it swells Russell’s vote to 95,711 and Allen’s to 91,790. The cities outside of Boston gave Russell a year ago 55,144 and Brackett 52,515. Russell carried them then by about 2,500 plurality. The increased vote this year in these same cities indicates th it Russell will have over 60,000 votes and Allen 53,000, thus making the total vote in the state about 156,000 for Russell and 151,000 for Allen. The entire Republican State ticket, with the exception of Governor, is elected by ample pluralities. Returns for members of the Legislature thus far Indicate that seventeen Republican Senators are elected. Complete returns for 127 members of the House of Representatives, a little more ’than one-half, show that eighty-two Republicans have been elected a«d forty-five Democrats. The Executive Council will probably stand seven Republicans to one Democrat Returns from every county in Pennsylvania give Gregg (Rep.), 50,833 plurality over Weight (Dem.), for Auditor General; Morrison (Rep.), for State Treasurer, 47,467 over Tilden (Dem.). The Rupublicans of the Fifth Michigan District elected Charles E. Belknap to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman Ford by a plurality of 1,200 to 1,500. The People’s party polled nearly 4,000 votea Returns from nearly every county in Kansas show that the Republicans have carried a majority of them and that the Alliance vote has fallen off. The Republicans have elected nine out of twelve District Jud sea The Colorado Republican State Committee claims the election of Joseph Cl Helm for Supreme Judge by 5,000 majority. THE NEW SYSTEM. The Careless Ones Lost Their Votes, but Generally the System Worked AU Right. The Australian ballot was employed for the first "time in Ohio, and reports from the principal cities show that it worked very well throughout the State.. As an instrument to secure a secret ballot it performed its office well, but through Ignorance of its proper working on the part of both the voters and the election judges a number of votes were lost This state of affairs was brought about by the mistakes of >the voters in marking their tickets and the inability of judges to handle the crowds in precincts where the registration was heavy.

Os course this hardship came etoa to those who had put off the task of voting until the last moment allowed under the law, and then there was not-enough time to handle them properly. Other features of the law commended it to the good opinion of for In its excercise the mission of the ward bummer is forever ended and the political heeler la without an occupation. Advices from the rural districts are to the effect that quite a number of votes were lost through the ignorance of the voters, although schools had been established in all the townships for the education of the massea Very few voters used the five minutes allotted, and many required only a minute, and some lesa than a minute. A noticeable effect of the new law was the large amount of straight tickets polled, voters evidently fearing to place more than one mark on their ballot through- fear of destroying their vote. The only criticism heard against the new election law Is the large additional expense for erecting booths at each precinct in order that the voter may deposit a secret ballot But complaint 1 was general that the booths were poorly lighted, making “scratching* a difficult 1 operation. It is said that both candidates, McKinley and Campbell, avoided . all difficulty in this line by voting their tickets straight In Chicago victors and vanquished are agreed on one thing, and that is that the new election law worked charmingly. Now that the law has been tried and found satisfactory, both Republicans and Democrats are wondering how an election was ever conducted without it The only citizens whe spoke disparagingly of it were the professional ticket peddlers. As the new law abolishes the occupation of the ticket peddler, it is not to be wondered at that he views it with disfavor. Os course there will be still meu at the polls, or rather within 100 feet of them, who will consider it their duty to offer suggestions to the voters as to the candidates who should be fa- . vored with their franchise, butthen they - wiH not be ticket peddlers. A citizen , can only vote an official ballot, and this must be given to him by one of the judges of election. The peddler, like any 1 ordinary citizen, can get only one ballot. A peddler without ballots is not regard-

t. n. Campbell. Defeated Ohio Candidate.

ed as either useful or ornamental at the polls by the political organisations that formerly paid him highly for his services. The ticket peddler was out of sight. No one seemed to regret his disappearance. The voter who in former , days had suffered at his hands was satisfied that the new law had accom-. plished at least one good purpose- The ticket peddler was not mourned by the police, the judges or the voters.- As had been anticipated, the straight ticket, as a rule, was voted. There were many who had only an imperfect knowledge of how to prepare their ballots. To avoid an error which might cause the rejection of their ballot, they usually placed XJn the circle before the appellation of their party. As it required only a second to make this X in the circle, the citizen who voted a straight ticket only remained in the booth for a brief time. The voter who was not pleased with his party ticket was easily recognized, for he spent some minutes in retirement preparing his ballot. As the great majority of the voters deposited with the judges a straight ticket there were not as many errors committed as had been predicted. The election demonstrated the fact that but little, if any, effective work - can be performed by campaign man- ' agers on the day of election. The voter is free from intimidation, and enjoys in 1 the secrecy es the booths the fullest 11b- ■ erty to exercise his franchise. The rep--1 resentatives of the two leading parties expressed themselves as thoroughly sat--1 isfled with the new law so far as it re- [ kites to election day, at all events. It gives no advantage to either party, and 1 it assures an election free from disorder 1 and strife at the polls. The defeated 1 party does not hold the law in any way responsible for its overthrow. A mem--1 ber of the campaign committee stated that the defeat was due to the fact that 1 the apathy of the voters in the campaign remained with them during elec--1 tion day. New Year** Day of Old. “The young people of the present generation who go out of town for the holidays, or pay conventional visits *■ only when they have received cards of 1 invitation," says a writer, “know 1 nothing of the good old days, before the war, when men used to lay wagers upon the number of calls they could make on New Year’s Day, and ladies i used to compete with each other as to ' the number of callers they could receive. Four fellows would hire a hack and call upon every lady who was known to any one of them. , Whole engine companies—we had the Volunteer fire department then—- ’ would call in a body and be introduced by the foreman. The havoc at the New Year’s tables was terrible, and. as wines and liquors were served ; at every house, the condition of the , callers when midnight approached need not be described. Ladies were insulted, parlors wrecked, hemes > taken possession of by unknown row- > dies. Then it became the custom for ■ any caller known to the family to 1 stay until another similar caller arj rived to relieve guard. Toward even- , ing these family friends had an exi ceedingly lively time, assisting the - ladies to receive a club of ‘Gentle- * men’s Sons,’ or a troop of fantasticals. Thus the good old custom of open ' house on New Year’s was killed by over indulgence, and now, alas! is more honored in the breach than the observance.” i The frequency of revolutions in our smaller American republics may 1 cause a sneer to pass over Europe at 1 our expense, but we can be proud of one fact, and that is that with all >' the newness of the continent wo > never make such exhibitions of bart barousness and brute ferocity as the i despotism of Russia breeds in all classes, from the throne down to the ; poorest serf. The St. Clair Biver tunnel is a great bore.

FROM LAKE TO RIVER. A BIG BATCH OF INTERESTING INDIANA NEWS. Ftoah IntolUatMo* feaaa Evwy Part at *M* Stat*—Nothing «f Int*r*at to Our R*u<l*n L*ft Out, The boundaries of Wabash will be extended. "Parties killed a wild cat Id Crawford County. More weddings occur at Noblesville than any other place. Dr. John F. Brown Is dead at Martinsville of pneumonia. Several boats have stuck in the mud in the harbor at Michigan City. A new paper is beitg published at Cannelton called the Telephohe. Hello! The Citizens’National Bank at Crawfordsville has moved into new quarters. Mrs. James Buskirk, Anderson, has trichiniosis from eating a niece of ham. Enoch Able, 14, shot an eagle near Jasper, which measured six feet from tip to tip. A flag has been hoisted at the school house in Darlington, and all the people are rejoicing. A car wheel weighing 700 pounds fell on Bmil Farber's foot at Fort Wayne and broke it. George R. Matlock and his son have been White-capped near Kurtz by twelve masked men. The Bosserman homestead, near La Porte, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $5,000. The largest Good Templar Lodge in Indiana is at Raub, where thei*e are 155 active members. That $200,000 fund has been raised at Muncie to secure factories. The town is full of wild men. Some thief took time enough to steal a clock from the wall of Dr. Sanford’s office, Terre Haute. William Farmer, intoxicated, was run down and killed by the cars between English and Taswell. Lewis Adkins of, Seymour, was crushed to death by a falling tree near Isaac’s saw-mill, east of town. J. A. Johnson, a big furniture dealer at LaPorte, has made an assignment. Liabilities and assets unknown. The strikers on the Midland railroad tied up the rolling stock until the company has been brought to time. A skeleton and a pair of large deer horns have been dug up on H. A. Cottingham’s farm, near Noblesville. A four-foot vein of coal within sixteen feet of the surface has been found at Steamboat Landing, Ripley County. At Greensboro, John Cook had his hand shot to pieces by a young Mr. Woods. The boys were rabbit hunting. Mrs. Margaret Bowman*, aged 88, of Seymour, is dead, a fall which she received some weeks ago hastening the end. A wooden spittoon is said to have caused W. J. Grover’s grocery store to burn at Shelbyville. Down with wooden spittoons! A tramp was caught in a Marion kitchen when the cook ordered him away. He exclaimed that he would have a scrap first Charles Buchanan was fatally injured at Valparaiso by being caught between two buffers and almost literally crushed to death. Smith Balser, yardmaster of the Pennsylvania railroad at Madison, was stricken with paralysis and now lies in a critical condition. Dr. Hiram M. Ashy, a druggist of Genena, and Thomas Manley, of the same place, have been arrested for criminal malpractice. Mack Wright, residing near Dunkirk, was arrested and taken to Portland, where he was held under S4OO for stealing twenty-five bushels of wheat. Daniel Smith, a boy near Alamo, Montgomery County, died from wounds received from the discharge of a gun he was carrying while running from the house. Louis Kasper, John Lang, John Ryan. Ed. Mezer, and Josse Ross, of Evansville, en route South seeking work, were victims of a railway wreck near Nashville, in which all were injured. Musgrave, who tried to swindle a life insurance company out of $25,000 insurance by putting a skeleton to his house and then setting fire to it at Terre Haute some time ago, has been captured at St. Paul, Minn. Two convicts in the Prison South had the shackles removed from them by virtue of executive clemency, which Gov. Hovey extended,. They are James Douglass and Edwin Kellis, Both were sent up from Morgan County, in September, 1890, to serve three years each for burg- ■ lary. Owing to the protracted drouth which has prevailed in Southern Indiana a genuine water famine has set in, and hundreds of people are compelled to go miles to the Ohio River for their supply. Wells and springs which have never been known to fail, are as dry as a pocket, and there are but lew cisterns that can be depended upon for any length of time. There is great suffering among stock on account of the drouth, which has long since dried up every creek and running stream. A horrible accident was narrowly averted tn a manner next to providential at Muncie. While William Sutton, 14 years old, was dumping dirt into a bin that feeds a hopper at Mock Brothers’ brick-yard, the boy got his left foot cdught between two cast-iron rollers and was being drawn into the machine through a space of one Inch, when the belt luckily broke and stopped the wheels. The other employes were at work some distance below the boy tn a pit, and could not have got to his rescue until his flesh would have been ground up with the mud and pressed Ifito brick. His leg was mashed half way to the knee where It was amputated. A mysterious animal, supposed to ba a wild-cat or panther, has been devouring sheep, hogs and small stock near the Loblolly swamp, which extends through a portion of Jay and Adams counties. Burglars are reported as having made a clean haul at the Atkinsvllle poatofflee, taking all the stamps, supplies, and a large share of merchandise in the same room. William Bowman, a 50-year-old resident of Morgan County; assaulted his 10-year-old grand-daughter, and'was taken from home by White Caps and beaten with hoop-poles into insensibility. Citizens of Memphis believe natural gas can be found beneath that place, The place |is only ton miles north of Louisville, and people there are investigating the matter. Hugh Patterson, a farmer, of Webster Township, Harrison County, went to New Middletown, and became intoxicated. On his way home he stopped ata straw stack, and, after sleeping awhile, arose and undertook to light his pipe. He could not stand upon his legs and fell down, the lighted match dropping from his hand and setting the straw on fire. He managed to crawl away tram the burning stack, but not until be had been so bodly burned that he haa atece died from the effects.

CUBRENT COMMEMTJ Miners and Convict*. Tn all of the other States |n whleh tW convicts are leased the same Lana will be made that has been made in Tennessee, and the people of these Stated! should begin at once to consider how to settle it—Savannah News. The trouble at Bricevllle. Tenn, wac to be expected, and no one can be surprised at it The State was duly warned* and should have made some preparation for an outbreak that was inevitable.—’ New Orleans Times-Democrat If it takes the whole power of th* State—every man and e ery dollar— the Governor should call out the one and expend the other to bringing the perpetrators of the ar.-on and attempted murder at Bricevllle to justice.—Memphis Commercial. The news from Bricevllle and Coal Creek, Tenn., should surprise no one* It is the legitimate outcome of the failure of the Legislature of that State to take action, at its recent extra session, in refeience to the convict lease system as it now stands.—New Orleans Delta. 1 The greatest Insult ever thrown tn the teeth of Tennessee was that which 3,000, armed and rebellious miners perpetrated in overpowering State employe* and, turning loose State convicts. No step' should be left untaken to wipe out mosi effectually such insult.—Nashville Amer-| lean. There is no justification for the acte of violence on the part of the free labor miners nor for the liberation of the con- 1 victs. That was lawlessness, but theto' is little doubt that the acts of these en 4 raged men will have a very wholesomG effect upon the people of Tennessee.—* Minneapolis Journal. i The action of the Tennessee miners in' wiping out the convict camp at Brice-, ville and releasing the prisoners cannot be justified. It is dangerous to appeal to violence. It is nothing short of revolution, and revolution is never justifiable until all other remedies have been exhausted.—Atlanta Constitution. The Bricevllle miners, having successfully routed the Tennessee militia and let loose a number of convicts from the Bricevllle stockades, are justly esteemed, a courageous and formidable body. Why not sentence them to transportation for a term of months and make Chill their destination?—Milwaukee Sentinel One Hundred Miles an Hour. With such achievements Edison Is worthy of all the decorations and enconiums showered upon him. —Philadelphia Press. The Keely motor will have to hurry if it wants to keep Inventor Edison from wiping out its last slim chance.—Washington Star. Edison has just completed an electrical device for producing a speed on railroad trains of 100 miles an -*hour. All that Is needed to make ths Invention a welcome one Is a perfectly secure safety attachment—Poston News. 1 Mr. Edison promises to give us a motor that will make the speed of a rallraaff train 100 miles an hour. This will entirely blot out the landscape, and suggests that some of the “blessings of civ-, ilizatlon* are dearly bought —New York World. Edison has a company ready to exploit his latest application of electricity to rapid transit and several railways have offered their tracks for the purpose. The world will soon know what the new Invention is worth.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Edison says his new system of applying electricity for traction purposes makes it possible to run railway trains at a speed of 100 miles an hour, or even faster if equipment arid roadbed can be made strong enough What the world now waits for is the practical demonstration of this assertion.—Providence Telegram. When Mr. Edison agrees to furnish a motor that will speed a railroad train 100 miles an hour, has he provided a ballasted track that will stand such going* After we have successfully attained a uniform rate of a mile a minute on our railroads it may be questionable if comfort or necessity calls for any greater speed.—Rome Sentinel. Edison, the electric wizard, seems to labor under the Impression that we are not traveling quite fast enough, and now comes to the front with a new electric motor that will enable railroads to speed at the rate of 100 miles an hour. This will help a man to sail into the unknown regions of eternity with lightning grace and ease.—Cincinnati Enquirer. More "Artificial" Showers. An “Artificial Rain Producing Company,* with six Stevens County “Capitalists* for has a cloudy look. It Is to be feared nothing will be watered but the stock.—Kansas City Star. The Government rain experiments in Texas have proved a sublime failure. But the money has been paid out all the same. Why not expend a few millions in an effort to see whether a man can pull himself up by the straps of his boots?—Cincinnati Enquirer. Dyrenfurth and Melbourne have a rival in irrigation that beats them all. It is the California earthquake. It starts artesian wells and fountains and rivers, not only of cold water, hut of hot, which the rainmakers do not pretend they can furnish.—Detroit Journal Already rival rainmakers are exchanging charges that the ona is stealing the other’s thunder. As all stealing savors of sin, it may be recalled in this connection that the most thorough case of rainmaking on record was caused by ths world’s sin—stealing inclusive—some 4,000 years ago —Philadelphia Times The Russian Navy. Russia has launched three new Ironsides, is leading her armies up to the “roof of the world* In Pamir, and has been sending war transports out at the Dardanelles all summer. And yet we are told there Is no prospect of war in Europe.—Baltimore Herald. Russia has just launched three new Ironclads, one of them of immense size. If the English-German-Austrian combination expects to have its own way with Russia and France on the water, it might do well to commence operations pretty soon.—Denver bun. > The Russians are getting quite a navy for a country with but one western seaport, and that closed by Ice more than half the year. The launching of the three ironclads will cause the naval authorities of Germany to take a careful glance over their lists of modern war shlpa—Providenos Talograxa Great in Dogs. The official dog eensus of New Torn City shows the canine population of that burg to be 36,503.—Louisville Commercial t New York City's dog esnsus having been completed, the valuable informa* tlon is at hand that the metropolis haa 86,50$ dogs of all kinda That is about one dog to every forty inhabitaatA— Rome Sentinel. A census of Now York Cltydogadtas been taken, showing that they number 86,503. Thia io a large number to think of, but it is only at the rate of about one dog to forty inhabitants, which would